Sony’s newest huge online game, Harmony, launched final week on PS5 and PC. And whereas the web shooter is enjoyable and appears very costly, it appears only a few individuals are taking part in it based mostly on some actually abysmal numbers and stats.
Harmony was formally introduced final 12 months with a small teaser, then formally revealed in Could by way of a CG trailer all people hated and a gameplay video that seemed extra promising. The sci-fi PVP online-only FPS isn’t free-to-play, as an alternative costing $40. When I performed the sport’s beta in July, I used to be involved that the value tag would make it a tough promote in a crowded market. And now, trying on the numbers accessible, it looks as if Harmony is likely to be one of many greatest flops of 2024.
Harmony, like fellow PlayStation-published co-op shooter Helldivers 2, launched on PC by way of Steam in addition to PS5. So, we are able to pop over to Steam.db (a third-party web site that tracks and logs participant numbers) to see how nicely Harmony is doing. And folk, the numbers are very dangerous.
Barely anybody is taking part in Sony’s new FPS on Steam
As of August 26, Harmony has but to crack 1,000 concurrent gamers on Steam. Since launching on Steam final week, the very best recorded quantity of gamers all having fun with Harmony directly is presently sitting at 697. As compared, Helldivers 2 averages round 18k lively gamers on any given day and its peak quantity is 450k. In the meantime, Valve’s not-even-released or completed shooter, Impasse, has over 80k folks taking part in it.
Now lots of people on-line incorrectly assume a excessive participant rely is the one metric for achievement for all video games, which isn’t correct. However after we’re speaking about an online-only multiplayer shooter constructed round taking part in with different folks, yeah, the numbers do matter.
Over on PS5, information is tougher to come back by as Sony doesn’t publicly share how many individuals are taking part in a sport. However we are able to take a look at the checklist of best-sellers on PlayStation’s official web site to get a way of what individuals are shopping for and never shopping for. And Harmony is presently the thirty seventh best-selling sport on PSN.
If this was a random third-party on-line shooter from a smaller writer, that wouldn’t be so dangerous. Nonetheless, that is the most recent unique sport from PlayStation. Harmony is simply not connecting with folks the way in which most Sony first-party video games do, like God of Warfare and The Final of Us.
So now what occurs? I’m unsure. I believe we’ll doubtless see some free weekends for Harmony within the close to future, in an effort to get the shooter in additional folks’s arms. However I additionally assume that Sony goes to need to admit the $40 price ticket was a mistake for this sport and both relaunch it as a free-to-play title or give it away to all PS Plus subscribers for a month.
In any other case, it’s doubtless that in a number of weeks, no person however essentially the most diehard superfans will nonetheless be taking part in Harmony on any platform.
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